Khatta Meetha is a 1978 Hindi movie directed by Basu Chatterjee

Basu Chatterjee

Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....

. The film stars Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...

, Rakesh Roshan

Rakesh Roshan

Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan (Hindi: राकेश रोशन (born Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath on 6 September 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films who was born in a Punjabi Hindu Kayastha family...

, Bindiya Goswami

Bindiya Goswami

Bindiya Goswami is a former Bollywood actress. She acted in Hindi films from the late 1970s to early 1980s.-Film career:...

, Pearl Padamsee

Pearl Padamsee

Pearl Padamsee was an Indian theatre personality as a stage actress, director and producer of English language theatre in Mumbai active in 1950s - 1990s.She also acted a few Hindi and English language films...

, David Abraham Cheulkar

David Abraham Cheulkar

David Abraham Cheulkar , popularly known as David, was a Jewish-Indian, Hindi film actor, who started his film career with 1941 film Naya Sansar and went on to act in over 110 films....

, Ranjit Chowdhry

Ranjit Chowdhry

Ranjit Chowdhry is an actor of Indian descent, with around forty movies and television performances to his credit, besides acting in theatre as well. Varied spellings of his names have been used in credits...

, Preeti Ganguly

Preeti Ganguly

Preeti Ganguly is an Indian actress who played several comic roles in Hindi movies in the 1970s and 1980s. She is the daughter of veteran Indian actor Ashok Kumar. She is best known for her comic role as Freni Sethna, the die-hard Amitabh Bachchan fan in Khatta Meetha...

, Deven Verma

Deven Verma

Deven Varma is an Indian film and television actor, particularly known for his comic roles, with directors like Basu Chatterji, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Gulzar. He has also produced and directed some films including Besharam...

, Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar was an Indian actor in Bengali and Hindi films.-Career:When Kumar was 17 years old, he decided to take up acting. His started his film career in Bengali films...

 and Iftekhar

Iftekhar

Iftekhar was a character actor in Bollywood films, especially known for his roles as police officers in several films.-Career:...

. The films music is by Rajesh Roshan

Rajesh Roshan

Rajesh Roshan is a Hindi cinema music composer.-Personal life:Rajesh Roshan is the son of Hindi film composer Roshan and younger brother of film director and actor Rakesh Roshan...

. Film is loosely based on Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)

For the remake of this film starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo see Yours, Mine and Ours Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film, directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda and Van Johnson...

.This could have been made a fine comedy since it had places where the director could have introduced such situation, but he could do little. Thus, it is only a romantic film with little comedy. The song 'thoda hai, thode ki zaroorat hai', 'tumse mila tha pyar' have meaningful lyrics by Gulzar and nicely composed by Rajesh Roshan.

Plot

Homi Mistry (Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar also fondly called Dadamoni was an Indian film actor. Born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency he attained iconic status in Indian cinema...

) is an old Parsi widower who is about to retire. He lives in a small home with his sons. Realizing that he may need emotional support and someone to take care of responsibility of house and kids, he decides to remarry. His friend Soli (David Abraham Cheulkar

David Abraham Cheulkar

David Abraham Cheulkar , popularly known as David, was a Jewish-Indian, Hindi film actor, who started his film career with 1941 film Naya Sansar and went on to act in over 110 films....

) introduces him to an old Parsi widow Nargis Sethna (Pearl Padamsee

Pearl Padamsee

Pearl Padamsee was an Indian theatre personality as a stage actress, director and producer of English language theatre in Mumbai active in 1950s - 1990s.She also acted a few Hindi and English language films...

), who has one daughter and two sons. Hell breaks loose as both the families are informed of the matrimony.

How the two families learn to adjust with each other & come up with solutions for their problems forms the plot of the story.